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HOLDER FOR MAIL BAGS.

No. 380,543. Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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onAnLns WM. ALLEN, or DEER PARK, ONTARIO, CANADA.

HOLDER FOR MAlL -BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,543, dated April 3, 1888.

Application filed September 3. 1867. Serial No. 248.758. (No model.) Patented in Canada August 16, 1887, No. 27,439.

all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WILLIAM ALLEN, a subject of Her Britannic Majesty, residing at Deer Park, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oontrivances for Holding Open the Mouths of Mail-Bags and Sacks of other Kinds while being Filled, of which the following is a specification, and for which I have secured a patent in Canada August-16, 1887, No. 27,439.

, The object of my invention is to provide a contrivance that will effectually hold distended by means of tension the mouth or months of one or more bags or sacks, and that will successfully perform this function whether or not such bags or sacks be furnished with rings,

eyelet-holes, loops, cords, or any other special facilities for attaching them.

Figure 1 is a perspective of a bag'holder which embodies my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a bag attached thereto.

My bag-holderconsists of the frame A B O D E F, of iron or other suitable material, having the free ends A B and E F turned down at right angles, but having a jog at the points marked 9 and h. This frame is crossed by the bar G H I J K L, of similar material, having likewise the free ends G H and K L bent down at right angles. This cross-bar is secured to the other part of the frame byrivets or otherwise at the points H, I, J, and K. From various suitable points along the upper margin of the frame rise pairs of metal studs a and b, cand (l, and e and f. The free ends described as bent or turned down form jaws A B H G and F E K L, whereby the frame may be readily attached to a rectangular bar 7 or other suitable support. The jog at the points 9 and It renders the jaws capable of proper attachment to supports having a different width.

The widening of the jaws in connection with the jog enables the holder to be tilted at an angle to its support when the process of filling a bag is commenced. After the bag is filled an upward lift under the front of the holder causes it to assume a horizontal position.

The pairs of studs serve, in connection with the front of the frame, to distend and uphold the mouth of a bag, as hereinafter more fully described.

Fig 2 illustrates in perspective my manner of attaching sacks or bags to the holder. The

and successful means of supporting a bag 7 firmly with mouth distended.

My holder may be made of iron, steel, brass, copper, or other suitable material, and it may vary in form, dimensions, and weight, according to the many different purposes it can be advantageously applied to, the example presented having been selected as affording a plain illustration of the purpose and the end accomplished by my invention. Y

In the case of mail-bags or other sacks for nished with rings, eyelet-holes, loops, or other special facilities for attachment, the studs may, if desired, be allowed to penetrate such rings, eyelet-holes, or loops.

By means of the jaws A B H G and F E K L (shown in Fig. 1) my holder may be conveniently attached to or detached from any rectangular bar, front of grain-bin, wagonbox, barrel, or other suitable support. With equal facility may sacks or bags be readily attached to or quickly detached from my holder. Such attachment and detachment can be effected without injury or undue wear and tear to the bags or sacks.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A bag-holder consisting of a rectangular frame having the two downwardly turned projections upon each of its inner corners to catch over a suitable support, and provided with studs or projections upon the tops of its over, the'downwardly-turned projections beinner corners for the bag to catch over, subing provided with the jogs E at their upper stantialiy as shown and described. corners, substantially as set forth.

2. A bag-holder consisting of a rectangular i 5 frame having the two downwardly turned CHAS ALLEN' projections upon each of its inner corners to Vitnesses: catch over a suitable support, and provided CONSTANOE S. FALLS, with studs or projections for the bags to catch BERNARD HANSON.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 380,543, granted April 3, 1888, upon the application of Charles Vvhn. Allen, of Deer Park, Ontario, Canada for an improvement in Holders for MaiLBags, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction, as follows: In line 93, page 1, and in line 4, page 2, the word rectangular should be stricken out and in lines 10 and 11, page 2, the words jogs E at their upper corners should be stricken out and the Words joy at g and It inserted instead; that the proper corrections have been made in the files and records pertaining to the case in the Patent Office, and that the Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform thereto.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 15th day of May, A. D. 1888.

[SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Gountersigned:

BENTON J. HALL, Gmmnissiomr of Patents. 

